Libra: Don DeLillo

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McCrum, Robert (August 3, 2015). "The 100 best novels: No 98 – Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)". The Guardian. testimonies of hundreds of people, from nightclub comedians to workers in train yards to waitresses.'' He didn't try to interview the major surviving figures, nor was he very interested in the scores of conspiracy theories of a conspiracy does emerge, I expect it will be much more interesting and fantastic than the novel.''

Ransom Center Acquires Archive of Noted American Novelist Don DeLillo". HRC News. October 20, 2004. Archived from the original on April 23, 2007. Shapiro, Michael J. "The politics of fear: DeLillo's postmodern burrow". In: Shapiro, Michael J. Reading the postmodern polity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp.122–139, 1992.

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the stale facts and weaves them into something altogether new, largely by means of inventing, with what seems uncanny perception, the interior voice that each character might use to describe his own activities. Here, for instance,

The band The Airborne Toxic Event takes its name from a chemical gas leak of the same name in DeLillo's White Noise. The novel also elicited fierce critical division, with some critics praising DeLillo's take on the Kennedy assassination while others decried it. George Will, in The Washington Post, declared the book an affront to America and "an act of literary vandalism and bad citizenship". [31] DeLillo responded "I don't take it seriously, but being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do. We ought to be bad citizens. We ought to, in the sense that we're writing against what power represents, and often what government represents, and what the corporation dictates, and what consumer consciousness has come to mean. In that sense, if we're bad citizens, we're doing our job." [32] In the same interview DeLillo rejected Will's claim that DeLillo blames America for Lee Harvey Oswald, countering that he instead blamed America for George Will. DeLillo has frequently reflected on the significance of the Kennedy assassination to not only his own work but American culture and history as a whole, remarking in 2005, "November 22nd, 1963, marked the real beginning of the 1960s. It was the beginning of a series of catastrophes: political assassinations, the war in Vietnam, the denial of Civil Rights and the revolts that occasioned, youth revolt in American cities, right up to Watergate. When I was starting out as a writer it seemed to me that a large part of the material you could find in my novels—this sense of fatality, of widespread suspicion, of mistrust—came from the assassination of JFK." [11] 1990s [ edit ] a b Leclair, Thomas; Delillo, Don (Winter 1982). "An Interview with Don DeLillo: Conducted by Thomas LeClair". Contemporary Literature. 23 (1): 19–31. doi: 10.2307/1208140. JSTOR 1208140. Big Bang' is a quixotic quasi-history of the wild years before JFK's assassination". Los Angeles Times. January 15, 2019. readers see the story the same way - that finally we're interested less in the physical events of the assassination than in the pitiable and stumbling spirit underlying them - proves ''Libra'' to be a triumph.

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a homeless man who himself could not grip things tightly and hold them fast, whose soul-scarred loneliness and rage led him to invent an American moment that echoes down the decades.'' That Mr. DeLillo has been able to make hisNaas, Michael. Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband, Bloomsbury, 2020. Civello, Paul, American Literary Naturalism and its Twentieth-century Transformations: Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, University of Georgia Press, 1994. Rhett Miller references Libra in his song "World Inside the World", saying: "I read it in DeLillo, like he'd written it for me". (The phrase "There is a world inside the world" appears several times in the book.) Dewey, Joseph, Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo, University of South Carolina Press, 2006. like.''''Contemporary American life,''''fears and aspirations'' - we hear these phrases uttered in a slightly self-conscious voice, as if he's trying them on for size before